Tokyo Trash (Japanese Lesson)

Here's an attempt to lump a Tokyo life FAQ, a Japanese language lesson, and an attempt at using multiple cameras to make a video a bit more interesting. Did it work? ^_^

The language covered in this video:
Moyasu = もやす＝燃やす＝burn
Moeru = もえる＝燃える=burnable
Moenai = もえない＝燃えない＝non-burnable
可燃＝kanen=かねん=combustible
不燃=funen=ふねん=uncombustible

Hope you enjoyed it and maybe learned something too!

Opening picture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lara604/3486459745/

The pictures I took for this video:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tolokyo/sets/72157623682432174/
You're welcome to use them for anything you want as long as you give a link back to me. Creative Commons baby!

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• japanese
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• combustible
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• gomi
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• ゴミ
• 燃える
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[Arkylahk]

Here in Australia, the cities get a green bin (non-recyclables) and yellow bins (recyclables) but smaller areas get 1 bin with 2 seperate areas in it. And every 2nd week the yellow bin gets picked up and every week the green bin does.. Usually at about 6:30 in the morning on a monday for me.

[jorchomasika]

Here in Mexico we have to take it out a certain day. But the garbage truck comes in the afternoon, not in the morning.

[Cartoonist62]

In my city in western Canada we have to leave our trash on a certain day. As for the waking up part....why not just put it out the night before? That's what we do :P

[s117godd]

@punkonthis AAAAHAHAA, oh, oh don't worry your head little man - Did you know that in tons of cities in my 'ECO-green' America, we simply throw our recycling in LANDFILLS!! Most recycling services dont have AN ACTUAL RECYCLING SYSTEM behind them! Its a fucking joke anyways, so don't guilt-trip yourself for not recycling.

[DingeZZ]

Here in the Netherlands it's not that difficult. You have to small containers, one (green) for natural products (food, plants, wood etc.) one (brown) for non-natural products and a bag for plastic. The containers are emptyed every other week around noun, just leave them on th street. The weekday varies depending on where you live.

Only paper you have to do on your own, but that's not so much work.

[worldli]

Very informative! I grew up in Switzerland and trash is definitely a unique aspect of every country!

[bloodyrage]

Yeah, but in my city/neighborhood the trash men come with a truck every Monday morning/afternoon. We can just leave it out the night before or get our older brother to leave it out in the morning. The cool thing is that the recycling truck come also on the same day every monday, yeah. The recycling truck used to come every other week/monday.

[bloodyrage]

"CC baby!" - LOL

"F-U, LOL" LOL XD

lol, funny/cool/informative video

[angel21d]

And here i was hoping you were goingtprovide a detailed explain how garbage in Japan gets sorted and how to dispose of it, not going over basic Japanese like how and why 燃える is conjugated.... Guess I was hoping for too much lol.